Connector for batteries.



G. B. JOHNSON. CONNECTOR FOR BATTERIES. memos mt?) 001.1. 1914.

Patented 00%,. 2,1917.

gnuamtoc UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE B. JOHNSON, 0F NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR 01 ON E-TI-IIRID 10 PALMER B. INGRAM AND ONE-THIRD T0 J. EDWARD COLE, BOTH OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

CONNECTOR FOR BATTERIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

Application filed October 7, 1914. Serial No. 865,515.

To all whom ,it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. JOHN- soN, a citizen of the United States, residin at Norfolk, in the, county of Norfolk an State of irginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Connectors for Batteries, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relate's to connectors for bat teries, and the like, by means of which the wires may be connected to the battery or electrodefwith ease and facility and safely secured thereto.

My object is to constiuct a 'device of wire or the like material, so that it may be manufactored separately, and connected to the battery bfy lnearis of screws, solder, or otherwiseijgas esired, ttnd be detached therefrom, when necessary} I In the drawings forming a part of this specification, and in whichlike symbols of reference represent corresponding parts in the several views Figure 1 is a sectional view of a battery with my invention in position thereon;

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the device; and,

Fig. 3 is a modification of the same in elevation, showing it connected with a screw.

-In the drawings, 1 indicates the battery to which the device is connected; 2 is: the rim -of the battery; and 3 is' the electrode of the same. 4 represents the connector formed of a single piece of wire, havin an upwardly extending portion 8, twis to form a. loop 5, which terminates in an end fastening prong 6, which may be a screw or the like, as shown in Fig. 3, and having a nut 7 to secure it to an e ctrode or other support. The connector bends at 9 to form a sprin portion 10, which forms the clip for holifing-the wire.

In Fig. 1 I have shown the wires connected to the battery, the some being run through the loop, and the spring 10 normally clamping the same. 11 is the solder fastening the clip to the battery.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. A connector for batteries, having one portion twisted to-form a loop to receive a wire, said loop terminating in an end adapted to connect to a support, and having its other end turned into a second loop and adapted to traverse the first loop and look a wire therein.

2. An article of manufacture, formed of a single wire, the same twisted into a loop and terminatin in an attaching means, and the other exten ing some distance therefrom to form a second spring loop whose terminal returns and traverses the first mentioned loo to clamp a wire, or the like, therein.

n testimon whereof I ailix my signature, in presence 0 two witnesses. CLARENCE B. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

Mrs. S, B. WHITE, FRED C- ABBo'rr. 

